This series debut kicks off with adventurer Ethan Gage winning an Egyptian medallion in a Parisian card game, setting an international chase in motion. Once the medallion is in Gage’s possession, and he’s framed for murder by a group trying to get their hands on the mysterious artifact, he quickly realizes that it’s not just a commonplace keepsake.

In lieu of jail, Gage is offered a chance to join Napoleon’s forces as they seek to overtake Egypt. Believing that his medallion may hold the key to ancient Egyptian secrets, our hero jumps at the chance to follow wherever the adventure may lead. Could the treasure reveal the truth behind the creation of the pyramids? And will Gage uncover the secrets before getting swept up in Napoleon’s ill-fated campaign? This riveting historical thriller will keep you guessing until the last page.

It's the same length, so either way works and I'm pretty sure people understand where to get them regardless.

Some other suggestions (and maybe we should have a Sticky FAQ for the inevitable Xmas newbies* so they know which stores carry formats compatible with their shiny gift/sale readers and what "DRM-free" and "MultiFormat" mean and that the freebies tend to expire pretty quickly so they shouldn't wait to grab them):

All Romance eBooks: AREbooks or just ARE if AllRomance turns out to be too long

Barnes & Noble: to B&N obviously, if it turns out that extra letter in "nook" is really squeezing matters

Christian Book: ChristianBk or XtianBook, perhaps

Ellora's Cave: Ellora or ECave, depending on how much space there is

Fictionwise: FWise or FW in case we get a rare freebie there (it turns out they have some of the Harlequin promo stuff, if anyone really wants a Secure eReader version of that holiday anthology)

Harlequin: HQN (they actually call one of their imprints that)

* Apparently the most readers the forum ever got online at the same time was on Christmas day last year.

The limitation of formats vs stores is that some stores are automatically geo-restricted. Clued-in people know that Sony at present doesn't serve anyone outside the US/Canada (and in the future, the UK) unless they lie about their address.

Also, Christian Book has online reading and occasional non-DRM ePubs, so in order to best represent the books, one would have to check the individual listings, which could get tedious. (Not to mention the name provides a content warning for those who want to auto-skip religious stuff).

And then there's places like All Romance, where there's a bunch of formats that readers can pick from, but only one at a time.

Not to mention people may specifically want a version which autodownloads/syncs with their reader, from the store said reader may be attached to, and it would be nice to let them know that X is finally also available at Sony/Kobo.

A store-added update to the thread title provides exactly that info without their having to check back to see if that comment someone made was about a new store, or just unreadably bad formatting.

This series debut kicks off with adventurer Ethan Gage winning an Egyptian medallion in a Parisian card game, setting an international chase in motion. Once the medallion is in Gage’s possession, and he’s framed for murder by a group trying to get their hands on the mysterious artifact, he quickly realizes that it’s not just a commonplace keepsake.

In lieu of jail, Gage is offered a chance to join Napoleon’s forces as they seek to overtake Egypt. Believing that his medallion may hold the key to ancient Egyptian secrets, our hero jumps at the chance to follow wherever the adventure may lead. Could the treasure reveal the truth behind the creation of the pyramids? And will Gage uncover the secrets before getting swept up in Napoleon’s ill-fated campaign? This riveting historical thriller will keep you guessing until the last page.

Probably the most important stores to note because of the format/syncing/geo-restriction issue would be:

Kindle, Nook, Sony, Kobo, iBooks

Possibly also Christian Books since they often freebie worldwide stuff which is only available to US/Canada at Sony and they've the online reading option as well, and may well end up being the only viable ADE-ePub option for international folks since Tyndale House and Baker have stopped sending freebies to Kobo.

After that, it's really up to the individual reader scanning the thread title to decide what's most important to them: knowing what format the books are available in (DRM-free, MultiFormat) or whether the book is at a store for which they already have an account or they'll have to make a new one or if the store won't officially sell to their region.

You could probably stick additional obscure stores as [Kindle/Nook/Sony/+2 ePub/+1 PDF] or whatever.

Personally, I'd prefer seeing upfront what's been made available where, rather than what formats it's available in, because generally you already know that from knowing which store sells what.

Last edited by ATDrake; 12-17-2011 at 02:20 AM.
Reason: Not all ePub DRM is ADE, although I'm sure they'd have to love to have that fee-paying market monopoly.

Yep I've noticed that some Friday Freebies don't even last the day and others are around for a few days, doesn't seem to be free at Kobo anymore either but is still available at Books on Board and the Sony store